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Is there a command-line tool to text-search a docx file? I tried grep, but it doesn't work with docx even though it works fine with txt and xml files. I could convert the docx to txt first, but I'd prefer a tool that operates directly on docx files. I need the tool to work under Cygwin.

OP edit: Later I found out that the easiest way to achieve the grep is actually to convert those docx to txt then grep over them.

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Related stackoverflow answer. – jw013 Jan 6 '12 at 20:24
I got rid of the DOS part, since that's off-topic here – Michael Mrozek♦ Jan 6 '12 at 21:15
Related: Command-line-friendly full-text indexing? – Gilles Jan 7 '12 at 0:11

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I know of several indexing tools that support Word documents. Such tools allow you to index documents, then efficiently search words in the index. They don't permit full text searches.

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DOCx is compressed and it is not a text format. So what you need is a converter first. After that you can use the find command on the converted file(s).

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Or you can use a search tool that can read inside compressed files. In your last sentence, I suppose you meant grep? – Gilles Jan 6 '12 at 23:32
@Gilles - look at the original title of the question before Michael edited it. This seemed to be a question about DOS (and I flagged it off-topic). – Nils Jan 7 '12 at 20:14
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Have you looked at openoffice ninja?
(don't know about cygwin support)

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